Finally succumbing to royal wedding fever, TheAdvisory brings you a brief selection of homes currently for sale and on the market with royal links: Bolehyde Manor, Allington, WIltshire Guide price: £4.75m Agent: Savills, 01225 474500; www.savills.com Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, lived in Bolehyde Manor in the Seventies when she was married to Andrew Parker-Bowles. The [...]

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Rightmove’s second Consumer Confidence Survey of 2011 reveals that the proportion of people expecting house prices to fall over the next year has dropped. The company surveyed the housing market sentiment of more than 26,000 people and found that the proportion of those expecting prices to fall has gone down from 32.3 per cent to [...]

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Vendors increased their asking prices by more than £4,000 in April, according to Rightmove, bringing the total increase since the beginning of the year to more than £13,000. But buyers are refusing to meet their demands. =========================================================================== Useful Resources, Advice + Guides From TheAdvisory.co.uk: > Instant & Free Online House Valuations > How To Save [...]

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Following a couple of years of liberalisation in the Mauritian property market, agents on the island warn that property prices are likley to in fall the coming months, making one of the world’s most amazing paradises more affordable.  “We have noticed increased demand from many different nationalities,” remarks Christine Goldsmith, a Mauritian woman who has [...]

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In its latest survey of UK house prices, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has noted the growing disparity between conditions in London and the Southeast, compared to the rest of England and Wales. “Within England and Wales, a clear North South divide is emerging, with London being the only region recording rising prices, [...]

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Experts think that the number of house repossessions in the UK in 2011 will be 40,000, but charities predict that numbers will reach more than double that amount once higher interest rates take effect. Debt charity Consumer Credit Counselling Service said it was contacted by 90,000 struggling home owners last year, each with an average [...]

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As winter turns to spring and people’s minds turn to the likely upshot of the economic turmoil in Britain and its impact on the property market (at least mine does), we present a snapshot of the sentiment among property experts and commentators: Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS): “I think [...]

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1. EAST HORSLEY – Surrey Houses sold over £1m: 46 “Beautifully middle class, full of accountants, solicitors, City types and internationals,” says Sally Blundell Jones of Strutt & Parker (01483 306565). Many houses built in the Thirties have been extended, tennis courts and swimming pools added. 2. COOKHAM – Windsor and Maidenhead Houses sold over [...]

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Compounding the difficulties posed by lenders for people trying to get mortgages, there is new evidence that credit rating agencies are becoming the cause of further misery in the UK. James Daley at consumers group Which? says that an increasing number of people are victims of ‘mistraces’, where a debt is attributed to the wrong [...]

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